Henri Rousseau. "The Partition of Oceania." Paris, 1905. (Dissertation.) A very thorough summary of extensive material. A pity that there are no precise, statistical conclusions (à la Supan). Good compilation. Many references to literature, maps, illustrations.


The author divides the history of "political partition" into periods:
1) discovery (16th–18th centuries)
2) period of missions (1797–1840)
3) "first conflicts" (1840–1870)
4) "International rivalry," 1870–1904. The author cites, among other things, a summary table (of partition) in Zievers and Kükenthal. "Australia, Oceania and Polar Countries." Leipzig, 1902, pp. 67–8. Worth looking at. Then follow detailed economic, commercial, and geographical information on individual colonies.

To the economic causes of colonial policy, the author adds (NB) – social causes:

"To these" (aforementioned, widely known) "economic causes one must add social causes. – As a result of the growing complexity of life and the difficulties pressing not only on the working masses but also on the middle classes, in all countries of old civilization there accumulates "impatience, irritation, hatred, threatening social peace; the energies knocked out of their defined class channel must find application, must be given work outside the country, so that an explosion does not occur within"" * (Val. "France in the Colonies." Paris, p. 92) – (pp. 165–6).

References to English "imperialism" (p. 171); – American (p. 175) – after the Spanish-American War of 1898; – German (p. 180).

Cites, among other things, Driault. "Political and Social Problems at the End of the 19th Century" etc. (Paris, 1900), chapter XIV, "The Great Powers and the Partition of the World."

* See V. I. Lenin. Works, 4th ed., vol. 22, pp. 249–250. —Ed.

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